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Top 10 Green Trends for 2010

  1. Energy performance labeling
  2. The smart grid and connected home
  3. Energy labeling for homes and office buildings
  4. Building information modeling (BIM) software
  5. Financial community buy-in to green building
  6. Rightsizing of homes
  7. Eco-districts
  8. Water conservation

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10 Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World In 2010

  1. Globally integrated future - better known as cheap, quick and global.
  2. World power.
  3. Technologically enabled future.
  4. China Ltd.
  5. Thick as a BRIC.
  6. The Young and the Restless: The Radical Global Entrepreneur.
  7. Come-out-of-nowhere theory.
  8. The Age of Online Factory Direct (OFD).
  9. Global Small Business Heroes.
  10. Borderless venture capital (BVC).

Social Enterprise – 2010

  1. Co-working goes mainstream.  
  2. Divisions between traditional “giving” sectors will continue to fade.
  3. Micro-activism will proliferate.
  4. More small causes will be aggregated to achieve greater impact.
  5. New ways to measure impact will emerge. Online swarms gain clout.

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Top 10 technology trends for 2010

  1. $100 whole human genome
  2. Mobile continues to be the platform
  3. 22nm computing node confirmed for 2011
  4. Supercomputers reach 15% human capacity
  5. Confirmation of synthetic biology fuel launch for 2011
  6. Smart grid and smart meter deployment
  7. Increased choice in personal transportation
  8. Real-time internet search dominates
  9. Advent of health advisors and wellness coaches
  10. WiMax roll-out continues

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The Futurist Magazine's Top 10 Forecasts For 2010 And Beyond

  1. Your phone will tell you when you’re in love
  2. In the design economy of the future, people will download and print their own products
  3. The era of brain-to-brain telepathy dawns
  4. Tomorrow’s inventors will spend their days writing descriptions of the problems they want to solve, and then letting computers find the solutions
  5. Micronations built on artificial islands will dramatically shift the face of global politics
  6. Young people will read more, and the old will play more video games
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